House to debate budget amendments
The House also parted ways with the Senate by voting to bar state money from being diverted to private school tuition. The state budget is the only piece of legislation that must pass during the regular session of the Texas Legislature.

LeEco will not acquire Vizio because of 'regulatory headwinds'
That could mean a lot of different things - but the result is the same: VIZIO and LeEco will remain separate companies and brands. It certainly seems possible that the regulatory climate in China may have prevented LeEco from finalizing the Vizio acquisition.

Ibrahimovic: "I feel like Benjamin Button"
When the Man United team sheet was released for the Sunderland game, there were a series of shocks for Red Devils supporters. While Sunderland are in real trouble of being relegated, Moyes is refusing to admit defeat.

1 dead, 2 wounded in shooting at upscale Florida mall
Their identities are believed to the the gym's general manager Jeanine Ackerman and a personal trainer named Mario. Witnesses at Soul Cycle, the Villagio Restaurant and the Yard House reported hearing the gun shots about 1 p.m.

Giraffe born at Toledo zoo won't go on exhibit for a while
It's been more than a month since the park shared the news of April's impending birth with the world, via social media. April will wean her calf for six to 10 months before it will be moved to another facility to avoid incestuous mating.

Trump tells newspaper Obama aide might have broken the law
There is no evidence she did anything illegal or illicit, as such requests are well within the purview of her previous position. Rice declined to comment through a spokeswoman: "I'm not going to dignify the President's ludicrous charge with a comment".

One For Arthur wins Grand National at 14-1
Not everyone can be champion jockey but this race just gives a standard jockey like me a chance to shine on the big stage . One For Arthur, trained by Lucinda Russell, sprinted down the home stretch to take the title by four-and-a-half lengths.

Five Kids Injured after Bounce House goes Airborne
An unexpected wind gust, out of our control, lifted an inflatable amusement that was on our campus for the event. Five children were injured when a bounce house went airborne and hit power lines, according to police.

Trump Picks Strategy To Counter Russia Storyline: Blame Susan Rice

This is former National Security Adviser Susan Rice's self-defense for having sought the explicit exposure, in highly classified intelligence documents, of the names of United States citizens inadvertently caught up in American surveillance of Russian officials.

Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, met with a Russian intelligence operative in 2013 and provided him documents about the energy industry, according to court documents from a 2015 prosecution alleging a Cold War-style spy ring in NY.

In an interview Tuesday with MSNBC, Rice said: "The allegation is that somehow the Obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes".

Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice insists her requests to unmask Trump associates were not politically motivated, saying her actions were a routine part of a "longstanding, established process". She would not say whether she asked for names to be unmasked, or whether she sought intelligence reports on Trump's associates. And making the story about Rice not only allows the White House to change the subject from what involvement Trump's campaign aides may have had in the Russian intelligence services' attempts to influence last year's election. Rice called herself "shocked" when she saw Trump's post on Twitter that said Obama had "wiretapped" him - "It wasn't typical of the way presidents treat their predecessors", she said.

When asked if Rice, who has denied leaking the names of Trump associates under surveillance by USA intelligence agencies, had committed a crime, the president said, "Do I think?"

"If so many things are described as the biggest, or the best, or the most - how to tell what really is important to this president?" But it sometimes picks up communications involving US citizens who are not the target of the investigation.

If Rice had indeed unmasked Trump associates' identities in these foreign surveillance reports, that response wouldn't quite make sense.

It's unclear if the information Nunes received is the same as the materials involving Rice. Senior intelligence agency officials then decide whether that information can be provided without violating the legal guidelines.

Rice became a favorite target of conservatives after the 2012 attacks on a US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, when she was sent out to do television interviews with talking points about the attacks that later proved to be incorrect.

President Trump addresses a joint news conference with Jordan's King Abdullah II in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 5.

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